You should also include costs for: building new power lines to bring electricity from the far places where the wind is blowing or the sun is sinning, multiply solar/wind farms as necessary to be able to catch as much fine weather (power generating wise) as possible, duplicated power stations (gas/coal/nuclear) as backup when the weather does not comply with demand (power stations will be sitting idle a significant part of the time); supplies, logistics, repair and maintenance cost of a vastly geographically distributed power generating equipment/transformation/and distribution network; IT software and hardware to make the distribution network intelligent enough to manage fluctuating power generation and distribution patterns.

You forget CANDU

The active cooling system seems to be the Achilles heel of a nuclear reactor.

Time to design and build nuclear reactors with passive cooling systems that do not need external resources to be operational.

Totally agree.

Such a service, flying over the GFW, would theoretically give access to uncensored internet.

Will the company filter traffic from China in exchange to get into that market.

Will China shoot the satellites down?

If twitter and other US services can delivery your private data to the government there, then it should be better to use services based in the European Union.

That will not only affect twitter but also facebook, linkedin, gmail and ....... slashdot!

Maybe some small country could good business guarantying that customer information of services hosted there are kept private, sort of a swiss, lichtenstein or luxemburg internet privacy haven.

Lets mother nature take care of the problem. Natural selection will eventually weed out those that walk with too loud Ipods

One more thing. Could this system, or something similar, better combine the outputs of both electric and internal combustion engine? The idea is to combine the output of both electric and ICE to move the car forward with infinite variability

Could this device make a new kind of hybrid possible?

For this auto, at a given speed the internal combustion engine will be running at optimal efficiency rpm range while the electric engine is used to get the required energy input for the variable transmission system.

How efficient such a car could be compared with cars equipped with conventional gear boxes?

How big the batteries and electric engine have to be to make it work? And how much can be internal combustion engine be reduced without loosing too much performance?

You certainly agree with Nazi Germany government to punish a foreign information company which refuses to deliver information that could identify people of jewish origin.

When you make a new game available on the market, just put it on any of the popular P2P file sharing services. Maybe even put your own P2P service online.

Make it totally FREE!! Anyone can download, anyone can play, no registration, no payment, no surveys no bullshit.

If someone likes it, put a link so he can donate ANY amount he see fits for the game.

Depending of the amount he is willing to give you can give him some goodies, any kind of merchandise, special subscriptions, or offer special services and extensions which would be also no DRMized once downloaded of course. You can also offer discount on real world events related to the game, game shows, competition, movies, concerts, etc.

Customer want affordable and hassle free software, and a convenient way to pay what they see fit or can pay.

You may think you will be losing money by the ton, I think you will making money by shit loads, plus unbeatable publicity.

Man! You could even et money from previously pirated copies!!!

And you can ditch those blasted servers. The money you spare with that can be put to better use on game production.

DRM comes back to bite you UBI.

After seing time after time programmers construct their own framework inside frameworks, their own overloading inside overloading, etc, if it would be better for a task to be delivered to code monkeys to design a domain specific language.

The convoluted programming I have seen sometimes is beyond description

If you have a specific problem in a specific domain that has to be coded by average programmers, maybe better design a language for that specific task and be done with it. With as little overloading, re-encapsulating and re-objecting as possible.

Let that for the real software designers.

Right, but most programmers today see only one side, and are totally aware of the other. For them a sorting algorithm is just a function they call. How it works, which to choose is beyond most of them.

And if forced to design something from scratch, they can only see the structure not the efficency.

Solution. Design an Documentation oriented language. Just write the documentation, and the software will be written automatically.

Or an artificial intelligence system that parses the code and, from a big database of programming design and bibliography, write nice and concise documentation.

Maybe it could be achieved with a bunch of reverse engineering documentation monkeys, ;-)